Future research can extend these findings in four promising directions.
First, future work should explore the dynamics or temporal departmental migration of project decision rights across different project stages
Second, how does governance-knowledge fit in internal projects differ from outsourced projects?
Third, it would be useful to explore whether IT-client “relationship assets” (Ross et al.1996) substitute for decision rights decentralization or the absence of IT-client knowledge overlaps.
Finally, how should governance configurations be designed in the burgeoning context of IT services, which lack a clear endpoint like application development projects?